Yosef and Dina* had been married for seven years. They desperately wanted a child, but the months passed by with no answer to their whispered prayer.
“Why don’t you go to New York and ask the Rebbe for a bracha?” I suggested.
Yosef sighed. “We’ve been to many tzaddikim and received countless brachot already. Nothing has helped.”
I explained how the Rebbe is a nefesh klali - a soul which contains the souls of the entire generation. I also told them many miracle stories, including from some of our community members, who miraculously had children following a visit to the Rebbe.
It wasn’t hard to convince them. Almost exactly a year after they visited the Rebbe’s Ohel in New York, they were blessed with their eldest child. Baruch Hashem, more children have followed, and they now have a beautiful family.
Yosef and Dina make sure to visit the Ohel regularly to thank the Rebbe!
Recently, a group of my friends traveled to New York together. One of my friends in the group, Moshe*, had been waiting years for a son. When we visited the Ohel, he spent a long time by the matzeivah, davening fervently from his tear-stained Tehillim.
Nine months later, we celebrated his baby boy’s bris.
He traveled back to New York on the anniversary of our visit to thank the Rebbe for his bracha.
